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parrot-fashion

adverb

  1. informal.
    without regard for meaning; by rote

    she learned it parrot-fashion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

There is no need for one-upmanship now such as the Carlos Tevez “Welcome to Manchester” poster or all those times when new signings would be drilled, parrot-fashion, to recite lines about City being the club with more local supporters.

His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years.

But language-teaching methods remain quite traditional, relying heavily on textbooks, parrot-fashion repetition and with only very limited Internet access.

From BBC

Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken.

At morning assembly, they recited the school prayer parrot-fashion in a sing-song which was hard to identify as English.

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